First try at peanuts,what's your favorite recipe?

[hal4uk]

CRG, Squirt gave me some he smoked in the shell; they were good...  Probably not as deep a smoke flavor as shelled nuts would be, but they were good.

I saw the pictures of the ones you did (and just happened to have picked up a can just like that at Sam's a couple of days ago...
You know the rest of the story... They're smoking right now.
(BTW, are you still living indoors after that incident?)

I soaked mine in Starne's sauce (a BBQ joint down in KyNOLA land).

[KyNola]

Hal,
Proud of you for calling out the Starnes's BBQ sauce.  You are going to be amazed at how good smoked and sauced peanuts are.  I recently bought a dehydrator and smoked 3 pounds of dry roasted peanuts with a combination of Frank's buffalo wing sauce, Cajun Power garlic sauce and dusted with Jan's Dry Rub.  Smoked for an hour and 20 minutes with no heat in the tower and then into the dehydrator to dry.  Tonight a friend of mine walked up to me and said "I'm out of smoked peanuts". :D

Hal, for the record the Jan of Jan's Dry Rub is in fact my Jan.  Check out the recipe on the recipe site.  I put her on a mission to duplicate another BBQ joint in Paducah's dry rub and dang if she didn't find something very close on the internet and then we started tweaking it until we hit it. I don't know a nice way to say this without sounding like bragging so I'll just say "it don't suck".  Put a liberal amount on chicken right before it goes in your smoker and tell me what you think.

KyNola

[Tenpoint5]

I can answer that for you Hal "IT DON'T SUCK AT ALL"

[hal4uk]

Well, since 10pt approves it...
And Lord knows, I ain't picky; all I'm looking for is "it don't suck!"

I'll give it a shot...
My smoker won't (no how, no way) crisp up chicken skin...
(not that many smokers do that well)

I'll toss it on my POS Lowe's NG grill to "finish" it...

My smoker does some things well...
Mainly pork butt and ribs.
And that's if you know the tricks.
(and ignore the instructions)

EVERY smoker has its quirks, but...
You guys joke about how easy the "hard work" is with a Bradley...
My Smokin' Tex is even easier to use.
But... the finished product ain't as good as the Bradley.

I wish it was, and I'd love to lie about it. But, it ain't.

[Daveo]

Well I finally got around top smoking them.Used Texas Pete hot sauce,some garlic powder and salt(they were unsalted nuts).They are good,but I think I'll use a bit less smoke next time.I used 3 hours hickory at 225 deg.What are your favorite time/temp combos?Wood type?
Gonna make some ABTs for Thanksgiving with crawfish.can't wait!